Andrew SpraggTender Back-up DancersTo celebrate the publication of Andrea Brady’s new book, Radical Tenderness: Poetry in Times of Catastrophe (Cambridge University Press…Apr 24Apr 24
Andrew SpraggNo(tes) to Tenderness“There are cords in cordiality” — My Emily Dickinson Susan HoweSep 26, 2020Sep 26, 2020
Andrew SpraggTender Solitude: On Pasolini’s ‘Lines from the Testament’In order to love solitude, he first tells us you have to be “very strong”, then that you need “good legs”.May 19, 2020May 19, 2020
Andrew SpraggTender Time; Tender Stretching: notes from April 2020Writing on radical tenderness and faced now with the distraction. A diversion. A swerve or veer. The compulsion to respond to a now…Apr 22, 2020Apr 22, 2020
Andrew SpraggTender Absences: On Echo. On Reverb.“Shakespeare’s gone, don’t even think about it” — Dr Octagon ‘Blue Flowers’Feb 29, 2020Feb 29, 2020
Andrew Spragg“Get it out of him whatever is inside!” — On the work of Roy Claire PotterRoy Claire Potter, performer, artist and writer, engages with themes of class, gender and regionalism. The political landscape of 2019 led…Feb 10, 2020Feb 10, 2020
Andrew SpraggTender Sadness: A Short ThoughtTheir defeat was complete, their loss boundless.Jan 25, 20201Jan 25, 20201
Andrew SpraggTender GenetM.G — What relation do you see between the saint and the criminal?Oct 19, 2019Oct 19, 2019
Andrew SpraggThe Tender Commons: Thinking through a poetics of radical tendernessPoetics in Commons Conference, University of Sheffield, 22 May 2019Oct 12, 2019Oct 12, 2019